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Does £160 a month for DIY with hay/straw/walker/2 schools/all year turn out at quite nice yard sound reasonable?

In South Derbyshire?

Thanks.
 
LOL, I think we should move to Lincs!!!

Its Breach Manor... seemed like they are quite reasonable for extras too. :)
 
Ooo, are you setting up a new yard? South Derbyshire is a fab place to have a horse but most of the yards at the moment have vacancies so people can afford to be picky. Most places are DIY only the going rate for yards including hay and straw is between £90-120 month so your yard would need to be pretty special to charge £160.

All the yards round here have all year turnout so that wouldn't be a selling point particularly. I don't know anywhere with a walker but then I wouldn't pay that much more just to have a yard with one.

PM me if you want more details on the local area. We moved yards in December so I've seen almost all of the local yards recently and have been at several of them.
 
Sorry, cross posted, where is Breach Manor? How have I never heard of it, South Derbyshire is hardly large!
 
Grief my friend does PL for that in Cheshire! £20 PW DIY is the most I would pay for standard facilities. If it were an all singing all dancing yard I might stretch to £25
 
Lol just goes to show depends where you are! Round here average for a standard DIY yard with a school is about £100 - £140 a month, more than one school, walkers etc it just goes up and up. Know of yards where DIY is £200 + a month. But commutable from London makes a lot of difference...
 
I live in essex and a yard im considering has indoor and outdoor, walker, turn out, good hacking and a friend loans a horse there so I know it is friendly and helpful people. It is £109 a month
 
it's like £37 a week, based on a 30 day month.. very cheap to me if it includes hay and straw!! especially with hay prices atm.
my yard in sheffield is £35 pw for grass livery
and my yard in kent is £35 pw for DIY
so i think it's a bargain personally!
 
To me sounds very reasonable my mum is at DIY and have to say it isn't the best, poorly maintained paddocks and only one school, no walker and no hay or bedding and pays more than 160 but that is in Berkshire which is always unreasonable on price. I live in Staffordshire and livery a lot more reasonable and facilities generally much better condition.

Mental the variation in price and also the quality of services offered.


ps sorry for lack of punctuation and amount of typos feeding baby typing with third hand on OH dodgy german laptop with non of the keys where you expect! Need a horse again just to escape!
 
Thanks guys, I think I might just go for it. I pay my mum 250 in the winter, she does look after him though but I hardly get to ride the bugger because he's 70 miles away!!!
 
HOW MUCH DO U ALL PAY!!! : 0
I pay £14.50 a stable per a week and this includes full use off walker, school, round canter, long gallop, jumping field and all stables are rubber matted and auto drinker. Very posh stables. I wouldn't pay more than £20 a stable.
 
Monsters said:
HOW MUCH DO U ALL PAY!!! : 0
I pay £14.50 a stable per a week and this includes full use off walker, school, round canter, long gallop, jumping field and all stables are rubber matted and auto drinker. Very posh stables. I wouldn't pay more than £20 a stable.
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Exactly my view. Some yards charge way over the odds - how do they get away with it? I guess because some gullible person will pay it lol No offence on the people who are paying more - but did you shop around?
 
Monsters said:
HOW MUCH DO U ALL PAY!!! : 0
I pay £14.50 a stable per a week and this includes full use off walker, school, round canter, long gallop, jumping field and all stables are rubber matted and auto drinker. Very posh stables. I wouldn't pay more than £20 a stable.
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Where abouts do you live?
 
Monsters said:
HOW MUCH DO U ALL PAY!!! : 0
I pay £14.50 a stable per a week and this includes full use off walker, school, round canter, long gallop, jumping field and all stables are rubber matted and auto drinker. Very posh stables. I wouldn't pay more than £20 a stable.
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I would kill for that!! Where are you? You can barely get a basic grass livery for that round here.

To OP i think it sounds reasonable especially with the rising hay/straw prices, yard would have to be very very very nice and well maintained ect though
 
Hi, I'm in South Cheshire and pay £25 a week for DIY and that includes a 12x12 monarch stable, all year turnout if required, and use of an outdoor (large, floodlit, rubber) school. There are also 250 acres of off road hacking and loads of quite lanes to mooch around.
Across the road there is an 8 mile fun ride with x-country jumps which only cost £5 to go round.
Indoor school cost £1.50 for half an hour to hire, horse walker is £3.00 for 20 mins and the jumping paddock with full course is £5 an hour.
Huge bales of hay cost £25, Straw £20 and Haylege £30 but they each last one horse approx one month. Shavings are delivered in bulk and cost £6.50 a bale.
So i think £160 and that includes your hay etc is a good deal.
 
Inky_and_Sunny said:
Exactly my view. Some yards charge way over the odds - how do they get away with it? I guess because some gullible person will pay it lol No offence on the people who are paying more - but did you shop around?
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£35 is the cheapest i know near me (unless you want to pay less for something with zero facilities and a yard i wouldn't feel confident that my horse would still be there the next morning..!!)
£50 for DIY is also not unacceptable near me for good facilities (2 schools, good grazing, some hacking)
but where i live (greater london/kent) everything is more expensive, like the rent the YO has to pay and stuff, i think £35 a week for diy is cheap haha! :D
 
I think £160 a month for DIY including hay and straw plus facilities is ok. I pay about that near Leeds - is annoying when haylage/straw is not of a good standard but the good does tend to outweigh the bad
 
I have spoken to my mum (who currently keeps him and knows how much he costs!), she thinks it sounds a good deal!

To be fair, it is straw or shavings and they have the posh small bailed hayledge all year, so no chance of any bad bedding/munchies.

I'm going for it anyway!! :)
 
I have a small DIY yard in NW Kent, nothing fancy, just a small quiet yard with no kids/teenagers, and I charge £105 pcm which includes morning feed and turnout plus lorry/trailer parking. Assisted DIY is available too. The going rate around here is in the region of £25/45 per week, depending on facilities. With the amount of rent on the whole yard that I pay, plus electric and maintenance, my own two stables cost me much more than my liveries!
 
Does everyone check who pay less than £25 a week DIY that there yard is fully insured and paying business rates?

There is no way I could charge £20 a week for stable, with rates, insurance, maintenance etc, I would be out of pocket.

I charge £45 a week am on the Cambs/Lincs/Norfolk border which is assisted DIY, including hay/haylege, woodpellets or straw, and have no problems getting great liveries.
 
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